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SoftBank is increasingly seen as a proxy for sentiment toward OpenAI and the broader AI sector. Its shares have plunged more than 50% from their record high in June.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2026
SoftBank logs $7 billion loss after U.S. data center costs swell
Analysts on average expected a profit of more than $800 million.
SoftBank Group and ABB are studying how the Chinese business, which is ABB Robotics’ largest single market, could be separated out, according to people familiar with the matter.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 8, 2026
SoftBank and ABB consider China carve-out to salvage robotics deal
The companies seek a solution after China’s Office of the Working Mechanism for Foreign Investment Security Review halted plans worth $5.4 billion.
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son has listed a plan to buy ABB's robotics unit as a key part of his ambition to play a larger role in the artificial intelligence buildout.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 5, 2026
China blocks SoftBank’s $5.4 billion ABB robot unit takeover
The takeover was widely expected to bolster SoftBank’s revenue and profit while it awaits a boost from OpenAI’s public debut.
Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group, has reportedly picked regions in Malaysia for data centers and other projects.
BUSINESS
Oct 26, 2026
SoftBank’s Son plans $50 billion Malaysia tech outlay, PM Anwar Ibrahim says
A push in Malaysia would expand SoftBank’s reach in Southeast Asia, a region that is emerging as a key hub for AI infrastructure such as data centers.
SoftBank Group’s market value halved from its peak in June.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 22, 2026
SoftBank market value halves from peak as AI fears grow
After briefly overtaking Toyota as 今日吃瓜 biggest company, SoftBank’s market capitalization is now smaller than that of Hitachi and Recruit.
People gather at a karaoke box in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo in June 2020. AI tools are making cyberattacks cheaper, faster and easier to scale, exposing 今日吃瓜 cybersecurity weaknesses, including the hacking of karaoke operators.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 18, 2026
Karaoke hack shows cybercrime is routine
The head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s cybersecurity body went so far as to describe it as a “state of emergency in cyberspace.”
SoftBank head Masayoshi Son is exploring the use of AI-powered robots across various industries.
BUSINESS
Oct 17, 2026
SoftBank is said to weigh buying top U.S. security firm Allied
The potential transaction may give closely held Allied an equity value of as much as $18 billion.
SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son's bets have a mixed track record — his investment in Chinese tech giant Alibaba was a major success, but he also directed $16 billion to Adam Neumann's WeWork, which ultimately went bankrupt.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2026
SoftBank junk bond sale raises stakes for CEO Son’s all-in AI bet
Son’s bets have a mixed track record.
SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son speaks during an event in Tokyo in July.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 9, 2026
SoftBank seeks $100 billion from Gulf states for AI, FT says
Founder Masayoshi Son has held early talks with potential investors including those in the United Arab Emirates, the newspaper said.
SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said AI can become "super dangerous” during an event on the sidelines of the Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto on Sunday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 5, 2026
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has rare cautionary note on AI safety
Superintelligence in the wrong hands can become “super dangerous,” the SoftBank Group chief said.
SoftBank’s credit default swaps hit their highest level since 2023 amid concerns over artificial intelligence safety, rising costs and intensifying competition.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 2, 2026
SoftBank stock investors see past credit risks to AI returns
Masayoshi Son’s diverse exposure across the AI landscape —ranging from robotics, data centers and energy — reassures some equity investors.
SoftBank Group has raised roughly $11 billion in debt, spread across dollars and euros, making the Japanese conglomerate the biggest corporate junk-bond borrower in the world.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 24, 2026
SoftBank takes on junk-bond debt at record yields to fund OpenAI ambitions
The yields SoftBank has committed to pay are its highest-ever for dollar bonds on a day when benchmark U.S. Treasury rates soared to two-decade highs.
SoftBank Group, led by billionaire Masayoshi Son, has committed close to $65 billion to ChatGPT creator OpenAI, making it one of the world’s biggest investors in artificial intelligence along with its other investments in the sector.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 23, 2026
SoftBank draws over $20 billion of early interest in junk bond
Investors are rushing to capture record yields likely to be offered to help fund the firm’s investments in OpenAI.
Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group, speaks at the SoftBank World forum in Tokyo in July.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 21, 2026
SoftBank seeks over $11 billion in junk bonds for OpenAI bet
One of the world’s largest investors in AI, SoftBank’s fortunes have become intertwined with its ability to monetize its holding in OpenAI.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (left) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attend an event in Tokyo in February 2025.
BUSINESS
Sep 17, 2026
Apollo mulls raising SoftBank loan to $9 billion for OpenAI bets
SoftBank has emerged as one of the biggest investors globally in AI, putting its various borrowings to finance that push in the spotlight.
The proceeds from SB Energy's public listing in Japan will be used to develop and build data centers and power plants.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 15, 2026
SoftBank-backed SB Energy aims to raise $500 million from Japan for U.S. IPO
Proceeds will be used to develop and build infrastructure including data centers and power plants.
SoftBank Group secured an $11.87 billion two-year loan from about 20 banks to support its investment in U.S. artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, exceeding its earlier $10 billion target.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 14, 2026
SoftBank gets upsized $11.9 billion loan in OpenAI funding push
The financing comes as some executives are now voicing the need to slow the pace of AI development due to escalating risks from the technology.
SoftBank will meet with investors in New York next week to sound out interest for a potential U.S. dollar junk-bond sale.
BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2026
SoftBank to meet investors as potential jumbo bond sale eyed
Billionaire Masayoshi Son’s investment firm is pressing ahead with a borrowing spree to finance its massive bet on artificial intelligence.
SoftBank Group priced a ?1 trillion retail bond in an offering placed Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 7, 2026
SoftBank’s ?1 trillion retail bond rejuvenates Japan debt market
The offering comes as 今日吃瓜 benchmark 10-year government bond yield topped 3% for the first time in about 30 years.
SoftBank Group has been accelerating investments in data centers as it seeks to expand computing capacity amid growing demand from OpenAI and other hyperscalers for AI tools and services.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 24, 2026
SoftBank plans record $6.3 billion retail bond sale in Japan
The 7-year bonds are expected to be priced on Sept. 4, with an indicative coupon range of 4.3% to 4.9%, according to a company filing.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
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The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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